Biographies Needing Attention

Apteka

This bio is very strangely written. It's in English but it sometimes uses inflected forms for the Polish proper nouns. Here's my attempt at fixing those errors and cleaning up the wording a little.


Polish act APTEKA was founded in Gdynia, Poland in 1983 by Jędrzej "Kodyma" KODYMOWSKI (vocals, guitar) and Maciej BLASIAK (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, trumpet). Until 1987 the band had only been active as a live unit, with a flexible line up of musicians participating in their concert performances.

In 1987 Maciej WANAT (drums) joins the outfit, and over the course of the following year, the band is reduced to a duo, with only KODYMOWSKI and WANAT remaining.

In 1988 they decide to record their debut album, and in 1990, Big Noise is released.

At that point, APTEKA has expanded it's line-up as well, with Janusz SOKOŁOWSKI (guitars) and Marcin CIEMPIEL (bass) joining the outfit.

This new line-up soon hits the recording studio, and in 1992 Narkotyki is issued. One year later the album Urojonecałemiasta is released, initially on cassette, although it receives a semi-official CD reissue in 2003 with the title Psychedelic Underground.

APTEKA is given a promising record deal by the label SPV Poland, but in 1993, before the work's been completed, drummer WANAT dies tragically in a traffic accident, subsequently ending that particular phase of the formation.

One year later, KODYMOWSKI makes the decision to reform APTEKA, joined by Olaf DERIGLASOFF (bass) and Jacek STROMSKI (drums). The albums Menda in follow suit in 1995 and 1996 respectively. Shortly after the release of the latter DERIGLASOFF leaves the band, leading APTEKA to fold once again in 1998, due to not being able to find a new bassist.

As the years go by, KODYMOWSKI decides to give APTEKA another go. In 2007 former members Martin CIEMPIEL (bass) and Arthur HAJDASZ (drums) join him to reform the band. The result of their endeavor is the self-titled album APTEKA issued the same year. This line-up folds after the release of the album though, and for the record's promotional tour, later that year, KODYMOWSKI brings in two new members - Janek WITASZEK (bass) and Marcin SŁOMIŃSKI (drums).

Currently, the band is on an indefinite hiatus.

This all stemmed from the days when people could post new suggestions in the 'Suggest New Bands and Artists' section of the forum with just a line or two of text and hardly any info about the artist - no biography, no artist photo and often no listening links either. A large proportion of these new suggestions were for the Prog Metal sub, since that seems to be what most new up-and-coming bands want to play these days. The PM team in those days consisted of six members, not all of whom were very active, so it could be quite some time before there were enough votes cast for the team leader to either clear (and add) an artist, or reject them. The team therefore ended up being swamped with unfinished evaluations, and at one point there were over forty of them in their chart.

Edited by yam yam - November 01 2024 at 22:00

^ Like one of the famous Russian humourists said, someone's heroism is the irresponsibility of the others.

Edited by NotAProghead - October 28 2024 at 14:16

^ When I looked at these lists I thought "Oh, David becomes a script-master!"  Now it's clear that automation comes from Julien, as usual.

^^^^ Great job, David!

https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3592 | Düde Dürst

Gordy wrote: Things look pretty sparse and grim for Blood Incantation and Warforged, the former a big name in the modern metal scene. Would anyone be down to step up to the plate and help them out? https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=11100 https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=11180

Edited by yam yam - November 01 2024 at 21:52